As seen in the picture below, advertisable space has gotten a little crowded recently. So what did architects do when they started running out of land? They went in a new direction: up. There are two main ways to “build up” and find new space for advertising that I’ll describe today. 1. Find new spaces […]
Company: Seamless.com Medium: public transit display One of the unwritten rules of New York public transit is to avoid eye contact at all costs. For this reason, ad space is sometimes monopolized by one company for an entire subway car, forcing you to read every single ad. Often these are the exact same ad over […]
Earlier today a friend asked me about my thoughts on a BuzzFeed post titled “The Most Powerful Ads Of Amnesty International“. This post has a compilation of some of Amnesty International’s most compelling and graphic images, such as these two below: These pictures are heartbreaking, and really illustrate what the brand is fighting for. But […]
Some companies want amazing advertising, but you can’t have amazing advertising without a good product. In Seth Godin’s book, Purple Cow, he pushes marketers to look at the process of marketing not just from the point of communications, but all the way back to the research and development stage. This nonprofit campaign called Bell Bajao, or Ring […]
Company: IBM Campaign: People for Smarter Cities Agency: Ogilvy & Mather France This campaign is innovative for a number of reasons. The first is that it caters to the customer first. This piece of advertising does not just scream at people walking by to pay attention (which is what it often feels like when you […]
Allison Munson 